The 6th

Metro Manila Film Festival The Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) is an annual film festival held in Metro Manila, Philippines. The festival, which runs from December 25 (Christmas) through New Year's Day and into first weekend of January in the following year, focuses on ...

was held in 1980.

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. had his first ''

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'' film, the undisputed top grosser of the festival; Nora Aunor had two entries:

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's '' Bona'' and

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's ''Kung Ako'y Iiwan Mo'';

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came up with Danny Zialcita's ''Langis at Tubig''; Amy Austria in Marilou Diaz-Abaya's ''Brutal''. Other entries were ''Basag'' with

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, ''Taga sa Panahon'' with

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and

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, and three comedy films: ''Tembong'' with

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, ''Kape't Gatas'' with Chiquito and Julie Vega, and ''Dang-Dong'' with Andrea Bautista (daughter of Ramon Revilla, Sr.). The Festival's

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was awarded to Premiere Productions' ''Taga sa Panahon''. The awards were spread equally and the category for Best Child Performer was first introduced in this year received by Julie Vega.

Entries

Winners and nominees

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Multiple awards

Commentary

Second Golden Age of Philippine film

The period of the Philippine film's artistic accomplishment begins in 1975 (three years after the dictator Ferdinand Marcos' declaration of

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) and ending in the February 1986

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where the dictator Marcos lost his power. Nora Aunor's '' Bona'' and ''

Himala ''Himala'' (English: ''Miracle'') is a 1982 Filipino film directed by Ishmael Bernal and produced by the Experimental Cinema of the Philippines. It stars Nora Aunor as a young woman living in the province who claims to have seen a Marian appari ...

'' in 1980 and 1982 respectively (both official entries of MMFF) achieves to represent the period where the accomplishments of two government institutions contributed to the emergence of New Cinema in the 1970s and 1980s. Her films are cinematically accomplished despite being politically engaged films, and the MMFF is able to make these films flourish during this period.Kim, Youna (2012). ''Women and the Media in Asia: The Precarious Self''. Macmillan Publishers Limited: England. Print.

References

External links

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